New photo samples?

[Biffy]

I think these may not have been discussed before and appear to have been taken with a Z:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mooringrope/

Pixel peeping at 100%, sure they seem to not be that sharp from the noise reduction but I think they'll still do very good prints, maybe as big as A3. I'll probably try printing some when I get mine as a test.

Also, I think responsiveness of the software / speed of capture and control is more important than minor image quality issues.

Edit: I think it may still be a pre-production device. As it's listed on flickr as C6603...

Edit 11th Feb: Later on in this topic, hush66 kindly posted some links to new sample photos which are from a production device and seem a lot better than the ones in my post below.

I took some sample photos using the Xperia Z, and uploaded them here:

https://picasaweb.google.com/110267829736715997848/XperiaZC6603Samples

Sorry if the photos are not that good. I suck at taking photos as my hands are somewhat shaky.

Update: original photos can be downloaded here: http://www.mediafire.com/?0ej013u7kkrdbv3

 

[Biffy]

Also these are new to me at least: http://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/sets/72157632729147253/

Edit: Having browsed these images a little bit more, I feel the Z image quality may be a bit disappointing.

This combined with a review mentioning there not being a big difference between 720p and 1080p on the display and the seemingly average battery life as a result, has made me start to consider whether to cancel my pre-order.

 

[m00moo]

First batch looks good to me. Alot different to the second album though... wether the 2nd guy has wobbly hands or just typed the wrong device i have no idea. But from what samples i have seen the pictures usually are very good, and as people say Sony are good in the camera department

 

[Akiainavas]

Looking good. Maybe it's nothing revolutionary, but low light photos are amazing.

 

[-]Megacharge[-]

I'm very happy with what I'm seeing in the first batch and those night/low light shots. It is only a phone camera after all so it's unrealistic to expect the world out of it.

 

[stefanve]

Pretty good for a phone. Phone Photos will never be great, even with a big sensor like the nokia, simply because the lens will never be great.
Personally I rather have a thin phone and a separate camera like the rx100 than a heavy and large phone like the pure views.

 

[rapha.194]

Photo quality

I read two reviews that said the picture quality Xperia z is not all that. They said there was not a lot of progress in relation to phones like iPhone 5 or galaxy s3.

Very noisy and marketing ...
Companies have to stop fooling people ... cuz eventually lose credibility with the public.

Sony xperia z = Tefefone too thin to have a better camera to nokia 920 and nokia n8

13mp was only for marketing!

 

[Dsteppa]

Sigh... You only signed up to write that?
I'd like to welcome to XDA:silly:

Here it goes:

I read two reviews that said the picture quality Xperia z is not all that. They said there was not a lot of progress in relation to phones like iPhone 5 or galaxy s3.

You said you read 2 reviews, that's fine and all. But what if both reviews said for example that the phone smelled like carrots (Just an example)
Would you have believed it?
Before concluding things it's best that you try out the phone for yourself.
And you may say/think that the pictures aren't all that, but qw all have our different opinions, some may find it enough for their needs, some don't. Some use a dedicated camera, some use their phone. Should I continue?

Very noisy and marketing ...
Companies have to stop fooling people ... cuz eventually lose credibility with the public.

Companies have to stop fooling people... agreed, but look it from their point of view, in the end they are only doing it to survive in this world. So can we blame them? I'd say no.
Eventually everyone bought a product because some company said that product X was better then product Z from another company. It's for us to figure out what true and what's not. People in general have to look passed their nose and see the actual truth instead of being "misinformed".

Sony xperia z = Tefefone too thin to have a better camera to nokia 920 and nokia n8

13mp was only for marketing!

Is that your conclusion that the telephone is too thin or did you copied that from a review(s)?
You named 2 other phones... well I'd say test it out and proof that to us.

And yes of course the 13mp is a marketing scheme, but some company has to be the first to announce these kind of things, in xx months I bet there will be more companies introducing a 13mp camera in their phones, will you also call it a marketing scheme then? Or won't you, because multiple companies have the "technology" (referring to the 13mp).


Now it's your turn:angel:

 

[rapha.194]

Dsteppa
First of all thanks for the greeting.

 

[Jiyeon90]

no photo but video comparisson vs the galaxy note 2 and nexus 4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=el85dQDDSrY

the xperia z is in another level

 

[stiffi2011]

Pretty good for a phone. Phone Photos will never be great, even with a big sensor like the nokia, simply because the lens will never be great.
Personally I rather have a thin phone and a separate camera like the rx100 than a heavy and large phone like the pure views.

The Nokia pureview 808 is a class all its own. The pictures from it rival just about any point and shoot I've seen at least from 2 feet away or with tux limit of the Nokia zoom.

I was hoping the Z was going to put up a close fight but I'm skeptical at this point. There certainly is hype created by companies but on the case of the Nokia its all backed up. Hopefully Sony hasn't let us down.

 

[hush66]

I took some sample photos using the Xperia Z, and uploaded them here:

https://picasaweb.google.com/110267829736715997848/XperiaZC6603Samples

Sorry if the photos are not that good. I suck at taking photos as my hands are somewhat shaky.

Update: original photos can be downloaded here: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3

 

[Warrimonk]

I took some sample photos using the Xperia Z, and uploaded them here:

https://picasaweb.google.com/110267829736715997848/XperiaZC6603Samples

Sorry if the photos are not that good. I suck at taking photos as my hands are somewhat shaky.

Those photos are probably the best I have seen out of all of the reviews. Your photos seem to suffer much less of the compression issues I saw on the review photos. Could you attempt to take some lower light pictures? and possibly a few comparing HDR to non-HDR? Thanks.

 

[hush66]

Those photos are probably the best I have seen out of all of the reviews. Your photos seem to suffer much less of the compression issues I saw on the review photos. Could you attempt to take some lower light pictures? and possibly a few comparing HDR to non-HDR? Thanks.

Ok, I took a couple pictures with HDR on and off (check the link again). I'll try some low light shoots later tonight.

 

[-]Megacharge[-]

Ok, I took a couple pictures with HDR on and off (check the link again). I'll try some low light shoots later tonight.

Hmm you sure you don't have the pics mislabeled? The first one looks more HDR-ish, but it's labeled as without.

 

[hush66]

Hmm you sure you don't have the pics mislabeled? The first one looks more HDR-ish, but it's labeled as without.

Yes, I'm positive the photos were labelled correctly.

 

[danw_oz]

I agree the first (labelled no HDR) has better details in the shadows, very interesting.

I agree with people here the photo's that are shown before are not that flash, however the ones posted by hush66 seem to be better, although hard to know for sure because they don't seem to be full res.

I agree to comments here about phone camera being around marketing. HTC tried something around this with the HTC One, I gave the HTC marketing department a bollocking about this, they pulled this marketing off the site a few days later. They were claiming you couldn't tell the difference between photo's taken with a DSLR and HTC One, hahahaha. The sample pictures were 364x268 pixels in size. I challenged them to tell the difference between photos from my Old Nokia N70, Blackberry 8900 and HTC Desire at the same pixels.

The biggest benefit of a point and shoot over the camera of the phone are the optical zooms, image quality is the similar or better than a lot of point and shoots.

 

[hush66]

I agree with people here the photo's that are shown before are not that flash, however the ones posted by hush66 seem to be better, although hard to know for sure because they don't seem to be full res.

I uploaded the original photos here: http://www.mediafire.com/?0ej013u7kkrdbv3

 

[Akiainavas]

These are very good, thanks. I really like how it handles macro shots.

 

[vivftp]

Damn, hush's photos are by far the best I've seen of everything posted from the Z so far. I just spend the past couple of hours sifting through random shots taken by the Z before finding this thread, so I'm very aware that the sharpness is quite a bit better in these pics.

Could it be there's a newer firmware update at play? Or are there still others out there taking photos with pre-production units? I know a lot of pics so far have come from websites that've recieved the Z, but what are the chances that Sony sent them pre-production phones vs. final retail units? It'd seem like a silly thing to do, but there's a real world difference between what they were able to do with the camera, and what hush was able to do.